Quotes About Motivation

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: "Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places.

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

To think confidently, act confidently... Act the way you want to feel.

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

Once you get in shape, you'll be amazed at how many other goals you'll want to achieve in your life. Fitness breeds enthusiasm.

If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.